Dakar’s Research and Surveillance Brigade (BRS), a detached unit of the Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCTRIS), dismantled a cannabis (chanvre indien) distribution network operating between Thiaroye, Kounoune and Guediawaye on 31 March 2026.[1] Officers arrested the driver and the main suspect at Thiaroye-sur-Mer at 8:30 p.m. as they took possession of a suspect vehicle.[1] Investigators then detained a woman at Kounoune who was waiting for part of the consignment.[1] The three detainees were placed in police custody with the assistance of a lawyer and face prosecution for criminal association, domestic drug possession and trafficking, complicity and money laundering.[1]
Officers seized 254 kg of cannabis packed in several parcels during the search of the vehicle.[1] Police said the woman at Kounoune was expecting eight of the parcels.[1] A search of her home recovered jewellery and 1,500,000 CFA francs.[1] A search of the main suspect’s home at Cité Alioune Sow in Guediawaye recovered 3,000,000 CFA francs, a land document for a plot at Hamo 3 and other administrative papers.[1]
Police said the operation began after a tip-off about an imminent delivery in Dakar’s suburbs.[1] The suspect vehicle was spotted at Thiaroye-sur-Mer near the town hall and tracked in real time by tailing and drones.[1]
